Non-refillable bottle



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CHARLES A. ELLIOTT, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,153, dated August 18, 1896.

- Application filed June 1, 1896. Serial No. 593,779. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refilling Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanyin g drawings.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central longitudinal section through my bottle. Fig. 2 is a similar View with the bot-tle in- Verted.

A is a bottle, and B is a neck thereof, containing the filling-passage. O and emptyingpassage D united into a common mouth E. The passage 0 is preferably slightly tapered from top to bottom. The passage D is provided near its lower end with the spherical enlargement F, below which is a port G, leading-into the bottle.

H is a ball-valve controlling the port G and, having the pintle a projecting into said port.

I are balls placed in the chamber F above the valve H.

J is a plug loosely fitting in the upper part of the passage D, having the tapering lower end b adapted to wedge between the balls I and provided with a tortuous passage 0.

K is a stopper-fitting into the mouth of the bottle, having the plug d projecting into the passage C.

L is a metallic spring-hook attached to the lower end of this stopper adapted to engage with a notch M at one side of the passage D.

O is a channel formed on one side of the stopper K, leading to a point above the passage D.

In practice the bottle is first filled through the passage 0. The valve H is then dropped through the passage D to its seat above the port G. The balls I are next dropped through the passage, lodging in the spherical enlargement F and bearing against the valve H, after which the plug J is placed in the passage with its lower end wedging between the balls I. The lower end of the passage 0 may now be closed by an ordinary cork P and the stopper K pressed into the mouth of the bottle until the spring-hook L engages with the notch M. When thus closed, the bottle may be emptied of its contents, the liquid passing through the port G around the valve (which drops away from its seat when the bottle is tipped up) and through the tortuous passage 0 in the plug J, finally passing out through the channel 0. After the bottle is emptied it cannot be again refilled through the passage O, as the'stopper K cannot be removed on account of the engagement of the hook L with the notch M. Again, it cannot be refilled through the channel O, as liquid can only be introduced in that channel when the bottle is in an upright position, in which position the valve H will be held to its seat by the combined action of the balls I and wedge b on the plug J. This wedging action of the plug J and balls I will also prevent the valve from being dislodged from its seat by shaking the bottle.

It will be noticed that my device dispenses with the use of cement, the parts being all held in position by the stopper K, which is locked by the hook L. At the same time the liquid is kept from contact with the metallic hook by the cork P and plug (1 on the stopper K.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. Abottle comprisinganeck provided with separate filling and emptying passages, uniting in a common mouth, an outwardly-opening check-valve in said emptying-passage, a cork or stopper adapted to close the lower end of said filling-passage after the bottle is filled, and a stopper for the mouth of the bottle provided with a spring-hook adapted to automatically engage with a notch or detent in said filling-passage to prevent said stopper from being withdrawn and having a tortuous outlet-channel connecting with said emptying-passage.

2. In a bottle, a passage formed in the neck thereof having a spherical enlargement or chamber near its lower end and a port connecting said chamber with the interior of the bottle, the valve II and the balls I" in said spherical chamber, the sliding plug J in said passage having the wedge-shaped lower end I), and the tortuous passage 0 substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. Abottle comprisinganeck provided with the spring-hook L adapted to engage with a separate filling and emptyingpassagesO and notch or detent in said filling-passage and D, uniting into a common mouth, said emptyprovided with the outlet-channel O, substaning-passage having the spherical enlargement tially as and for the purpose described. A

5 F and port G, the valve H and balls I in said I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature I 5 spherical chamber adapted to be introduced in presence of tWo Witnesses.

thereto through the passage 1), the sliding CHARLES A. ELLIOTT. plug J in said passage having the tortuous W'itnesses: passage 0 and wedge 19 at its lower end, the LYMAN B. TRUMBULL,

1o cork or stopper P, and the stopper K'having D. P. SAGENDORPH. 

